Manchester City Council is using its “twinned” status with St Petersburg to pressure Russia  into reconsidering its new anti-gay laws.

It’s the airline that everyone loves to complain about, but here’s why it’s my favourite

Calf complaint has made batsman a doubt

England are continuing their anxious wait over Kevin Pietersen’s fitness for the third Test in the Ashes series.

Batsman could miss third Test which gets underway on August 1 after he suffers a calf strain

My mother-in-law Jean Broughton, who died on 11 July 2013, was one of the first women doctors to be trained in the UK, at the Royal Free Hospital in London from 1935-41. At the start of the Second World War, she was working in hospitals in the East End of London until she was called up to the Royal Army Medical Corps to serve in India, where she met her husband, Hanns Friedlander, a Viennese doctor who had fled the Nazis.

One of the little touches of genius about this year’s Manchester International Festival has been the imaginative choice of venues with which the artistic director Alex Poots has given extra resonance to the works being staged. Perhaps the best example of this was Maxine Peake’s bravura performance of The Masque of Anarchy, the long poem which Percy Byshe Shelley wrote in indignation against the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.

England striker returned to Manchester just 16 hours after arriving in Bangkok for United's pre-season tour of Asia

The striker picked up a hamstring injury shortly after arriving in Thailand

Judge said it may have been a crazy scheme, ‘but it was a very real plan’

A television channel has been hit with a hefty fine after broadcasting a speech by an Islamic scholar who said Muslims had “a duty to kill” anyone who insulted the prophet.

A footballer who killed two people in a car crash and was released from jail by mistake is back in custody, police said today.

Samantha Murray's first taste of Wimbledon was a short and sharp one as she was sent packing in the first round by Camila Giorgi.

The name of Greater Manchester’s long-awaited version of the London Oyster Card was announced yesterday. It is to be called – drum roll –  “My Get Me There”. And has, unsurprisingly, elicited a big fat “WHAT?” from Mancunians.